Without a heavy-hitting exclusive for the holiday season, Sony will have to rely on a third-party multiplatform game...and that game is Destiny.
Destiny has made over $160 million in MTX revenue, and these numbers only account the data from late 2017 to early 2019.
That's extremely low for microtransactions, especially for a game that's essentially designed around it
This was back when the game wasn't free to play.
The figures are from November 2017 to February 2019 (1 year and 4 months).
Based on that projection, the MTX revenue for Destiny 2 likely would have been closer to ~$240m for 2 years.
Not sure if premium expansions are included in that figure either although ... I'd hope that they are though and that most of the revenue was for actual content like Forsaken.
People spend way too much money on cosmetics.
Seasons($10 and just got bumped to $12) and dungeon keys($10 each, two a year) are through the eververse(micro transaction) store.
So for those two years, in order to play a season, you would pay through micro transactions.
Bungie Marathon will be worse since it's designed around it as well
It makes me sad to agree... but at the same time I am looking forward to giving it a go. Destiny 2 is so far in, I find it difficult to figure out what I am meant to do first.
Let's compare something similar. Apex Legends and its ridiculous $18/$40 skins make EA a billion each year.
For as much as ppl complain how much they hate microtransactions, they sure don’t act like it. No wonder they aren’t going anywhere.
By "people" you're referring to millions and millions of people. Obviously the ones complaining aren't necessarily the same as the ones spending all that money.
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Watchdogs was marketed perfectly by Sony, especially for a new IP
If they follow that formula with Destiny, it's gonna be good.
Side Note: I hope they have a marketing deal with Batman and Mgs TPP... Both of those games could've sold a few more copies with some more cool commercials
Destiny is going to sell insanely well.
If the Alpha was any indication ( it was old code even ) then this game is going to be fantastic.
Never got to play alpha, just anxious to get a shot to play. That beta cant come soon enough.
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I think so too, its been getting talked about a lot ever since the Alpha people can't stopped talking about it. If Sony does the marketing correctly like they've been doing for the ps4 and games it will sell the most on PS4 for sure.